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Bay September 15th, 2017 8:00 PM

Small Writing Contest
 
Small Writing Competition!
Judged by Bay Alexison, bobandbill, Astinus, and Bardothren.

http://i.imgur.com/f5VPKbS.jpg

Welcome everyone to the Small Writing Competition! Ready to write a story based on this year's prompt that will impress the four judges and the rest of PC? Great!

But first, a few rules to keep in mind.

Rules
1.) Follow PC's rules and Fanfiction and Writing's rules.
2.) The stories written for this competition must be completely new. In other words, they must not have been written before and not posted anywhere else until judging is over.
3.) You must PM your entries to all of the judges. (This is so if someone loses their PMs the others still have them and so forth). The judges in question are bobandbill, Bay Alexison, Bardothren and Astinus. You also must post in this thread when you send your PMs so we can confirm you did send us an entry.
4.) One entry per member only, sorry.
5.) You have until 11:59pm EDT, 22nd September (Now it's been extended to 9am EDT/6am PST, 23rd September )to get your entry in.
6.) The story can be based on Pokemon or be original fiction. Note the judges may not all be familiar with any other fandoms.
7.) The entry can only be a completed one-shot as this is a small writing competition - no chaptered entries, please!
8.) Please don't publicly post your stories until the competition is over! Once the scores are posted and the competition is over, you may post your story in Fanfiction and Writing so that others may see it. Make sure to add [SWC] to your title if you do!

If you have any other questions, ask away!

Scoring and Prompt
Each entry can have a maximum score of 30, with the points broken down into three categories equaling 10 points in total like in previous years. The categories are:

Spelling and Grammar
Characterization, Plot, and Description
Relevance to Prompt

The prompt is magic, so good luck with making use of that in your story!

Entrants

Nothing, but maybe a Rom Hacker
RedBallon
Winter
Aisu
Chr. Draco
Forever
Cyaloom
icomeanon6
LilithSilver
BadSheep
Venia Sielnte
Salazorrah
Abby
countryemo


Venia Silente September 15th, 2017 8:37 PM

Sign me in. I will try to make a good thing happen this year which hasn't been easy, but this contest tends to be inspirational for me. Also, glad to be back. Glad to see SWC is a thing, too.

Aquacorde September 15th, 2017 8:38 PM

Ah I'll write!

Somewhere_ September 15th, 2017 8:42 PM

i have a couple ideas floating around in my head

Flowerchild September 15th, 2017 9:22 PM

never done this before but why not

Sonata September 15th, 2017 10:31 PM

I'll give it a shot. Here's hoping I can find the time.

Abby September 16th, 2017 12:43 AM

Oh sure. It'll give me something to do

BlissyMKW September 16th, 2017 1:29 AM

I'll give it a shot and see what I can do.

Neon Pink September 16th, 2017 3:07 AM

I've had my eye on this contest since it's been announced. I haven't written any short stories in a while, but the prompt is making my head full of ideas. Wish me luck.

icomeanon6 September 16th, 2017 3:08 AM

Nice prompt! Bet we'll get a good variety of takes on it. Count me in!

Alakazam17 September 16th, 2017 4:18 AM

This is definitely the event I have been looking forward to the most. Count me in. ^_^

Janp September 16th, 2017 7:48 AM

Okay, Ill try this. Not sure if my English skills are good enough, but I can try :D

Aisu September 16th, 2017 11:02 AM

I'm in but also somewhat disappointed Bardo isn't writing, but eh

Somewhere_ September 16th, 2017 11:27 AM

Aside from voluntarily posting stories onto the writing sub-forum, will there be any way to read other member's entries after the event? For example, will there be a massive post on here or something with the short stories in spoiler tags?

ASDBUDDY September 16th, 2017 11:30 AM

Ooh seems Interesting, umm a give this a shot! :)

Venia Silente September 16th, 2017 12:48 PM

Hey, what do we know, maybe Bardo pulls out some "magic" of his own and submits an entry that goes in somehow... XD

At the moment I am trying to polish and formalize three potential ideas to work with, to see which one will work out the best.. You never know where you are going to end up when you follow these abstract but versatile prompts.

Nothing, but maybe a Rom Hacker September 16th, 2017 3:32 PM

Okay, why not? Well, why am I saying why not when I just PMed my entry to judges. Well, anyways I wish everybody GOOD LUCK! I hope the judges enjoy my entry and everybody else's.

Astinus September 16th, 2017 3:59 PM

Posting here to confirm I got Nothing, but maybe a Rom Hacker's entry.

And good luck to everyone! Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadSheep (Post 9754476)
Aside from voluntarily posting stories onto the writing sub-forum, will there be any way to read other member's entries after the event? For example, will there be a massive post on here or something with the short stories in spoiler tags?

Unfortunately we won't be posting everyone's stories in a massive post. Some entrants might not want their story shared when the results are posted, in case they want to use the judges' reviews to change their story. Or there might be some entrants that simply don't want to share their story. Just posting the scores gives everybody the choice of if they want to share or not.

Somewhere_ September 16th, 2017 7:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Astinus (Post 9754732)
Unfortunately we won't be posting everyone's stories in a massive post. Some entrants might not want their story shared when the results are posted, in case they want to use the judges' reviews to change their story. Or there might be some entrants that simply don't want to share their story. Just posting the scores gives everybody the choice of if they want to share or not.

Thanks for answering my question!

Aquacorde September 16th, 2017 7:24 PM

ohhh that's an entry in already? wow! how's everyone else coming along?

Neon Pink September 16th, 2017 7:37 PM

AHAHAHAHA! I sent my story in! Sorry I had to send separate PMs to the judges. It wouldn't send the same PM to the multiple judges at once. Stupid computer. But hey, I hope it's good, I hope! Took me three hours to write. It's like almost 20 minutes to midnight here on a Saturday night. Oh well.

Aquacorde September 16th, 2017 7:43 PM

nice job!! im amazed at yall who can write so quickly wow~

Somewhere_ September 17th, 2017 8:34 AM

I've started writing and I like where I'm going with the story so far. I definitely need to edit the beginning a bit, then I'm good for the setting.

Venia Silente September 17th, 2017 8:46 AM

I have four potential ideas to write for, and will spend a part of today evaluating and calibrating before the final decision. After that, it's only mostly writing and probably getting a beta reader. If time permits.

For those interested to know, the four plot ideas go more or less like this:
  1. A story where magic, whatever it means, plays a role, in some relatively important form.
  2. A narration of events strongly tied together by the application of a force that might be described as magic.
  3. You won't believe how this magic thingy intervenes in the plot! Click to read more!
  4. Some characters go on calling stuff that happens "magic", which might or might not be true to word.

icomeanon6 September 17th, 2017 9:18 AM

I solidified my idea last night and got the outline basically written earlier today. It's different than the kinds of stories I usually write and I'm not as confident about it as I've been for some of my past entries; but hey, sometimes the ones you're unsure about are the ones people like most. So here goes!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Venia Silente
After that, it's only mostly writing and probably getting a beta reader. If time permits.

Better start asking around now. That's a lot of time to budget for a short contest.


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